Random Thoughts on Technology

Emi Baragan's (mostly) technical blog

PivotViewer Extension for Reporting Services - CTP1

On his blog, Cristian Petculescu posted a cool video demonstrating the capabilities of the...

Date: 07/20/2010

Kerberos Authentication for SSRS 2008 R2 integrated with SharePoint 2010.

Prash announcedyesterday the availability of a new whitepaper - Configuring Kerberos Authentication...

Date: 07/15/2010

SQL Server Setup and Deployment Portal is live

https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc765421.aspx - SQL Server Setup and Deployment Support and...

Date: 05/14/2010

Using DelegConfig version 2.0 (beta) tool for troubleshooting Kerberos Delegation issues

In april 2009, I posted an article on using Brian Murphy Booth's DelegConfig tool for...

Date: 12/28/2009

Doubled records in Excel output of a SSRS Report with expandable regions

Some customers have lately raised the discussion around, what they thought it was, a misbehavior of...

Date: 10/29/2009

SSRS service might not start after installing Windows Security patches and rebooting the machine

Sometimes, if your server is under heavy load, or after installing Windows Security patches, like...

Date: 08/10/2009

Copy 'n' Paste from PDF files generated from SQL Server Reporting Services

Over the last months I've seen more and more customers inquiring about issues when trying to Copy...

Date: 08/06/2009

Timeouts and Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Reporting Services

When working with Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Reporting Services, there are more levels of...

Date: 05/28/2009

Slow response time for SQL Server Reporting Services after restart or after period of inactivity - why does it happen and how to fix it -

I can think of 2 separate issues and causes. First is related to the Web Service recycling and the...

Date: 04/24/2009

Using DelegConfig tool for troubleshooting Kerberos Delegation issues

A couple of days ago I delivered a presentation on troubleshooting Kerberos configuration issues,...

Date: 04/16/2009

Here's a quick guide describing a few checks you could make if you encounter any WMI related errors...

Date: 03/16/2009

Creating Subscriptions Programmatically using different Local Settings (field separators)

If you want to create subscriptions programmatically, using the SOAP API, you would call the...

Date: 02/25/2009

About integrating Reporting Services into your application (for beginners)

In order to integrate Reporting Services into your Web Application you have the following options:...

Date: 01/27/2009

Unable to load the client print control after installing KB956391

Recently, one of my colleagues put together a very comprehensive action plan that normally should...

Date: 12/03/2008

Could not locate entry in sysdatabases for database X

While upgrading a SQL Server 2005 Reporting Services instance to SP2 from SP1 or from RTM, you might...

Date: 10/30/2008

Conditional Formatting not working in reports exported to Excel from SQL Server 2000 Reporting Services SP2

Consider the following scenario: You have a report deployed on a SQL Server 2000 Reporting Services...

Date: 09/19/2008

Developer Tools in Internet Explorer 8

As you probably heard, IE8 introduces the Developer Tools. Lots of great features like live HTML and...

Date: 09/15/2008

SQL Server Agent cannot be started after adding an "Alias Local Host Server"

We might find ourselves in the following scenario: for a SQL Server 2005 edition, you accidentaly...

Date: 08/26/2008

"The specified @name (‘B3F7CB60-6636-4F67-93CF-B94C052DFD29’) already exists" while editing a subscription

Consider the following scenario: You have either SQL Server 2000 Reporting Services or SQL Server...

Date: 08/26/2008